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View synonyms for graveyard shift

graveyard shift

noun

  1. a work shift usually beginning at about midnight and continuing for about eight hours through the early morning hours.
  2. those who work this shift.


graveyard shift

noun

  1. the working shift between midnight and morning
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of graveyard shift1

An Americanism dating back to 1905–10
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Example Sentences

She and her fiance work the graveyard shift at Amazon, but they went two weeks without pay after the fire displaced them, and have been jumping from motel to motel.

He was working graveyard shifts in hospitality while trying to find acting work, and was rejected when he first auditioned for Hamilton.

From BBC

The company cancelled the graveyard shift and evacuated most staff out of an “abundance of caution.”

Then he took a job working the graveyard shift as a truck driver at the port.

A 28-year department veteran, Fortney worked the graveyard shift as a patrol sergeant and served as president of the Deputy Sheriff’s Association before ascending to sheriff.

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